52¢ PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [partir 
proposed by the first-mentioned House, and, either with or 
without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both 
Houses, to the electors in each State qualified to vote for 
the election of the House of Representatives! 
When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the 
vote shall be taken in such manner as the Parliament 
prescribes. But until the qualification of electors of members 
of the House of Representatives becomes uniform through- 
out the Commonwealth, only one half the electors voting 
for and against the proposed law shall be counted in any 
state in which adult suffrage prevails. 
And if in a majority of the states a majority of the electors 
voting approve the proposed law, and if a majority of all 
the electors voting also approve the proposed law, it shall 
be presented to the Governor-General for the King’s assent. 
No alteration diminishing the proportionate representa- 
tion of any state in either House of the Parliament, or the 
minimum number of representatives of a state in the House 
of Representatives, or increasing, diminishing, or otherwise 
altering the limits of the state, or in any manner affecting 
the provisions of the constitution in relation thereto, shall 
become law, unless the majority of the electors voting in 
that State approve the proposed law. 
(b) New South Wales 
Under the Constitution Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. 54, and Act 
No. 32 of 1902, the Legislative Council of New South Wales 
consists of persons unlimited in number3—at present 52 
—summoned by the Governor in virtue of clause xi of the 
Letters Patent by instrument under the Great Seal of the 
state. The quorum is one-fourth. 
A Legislative Councillor must be of the full age of twenty- 
one, and a natural-born subject of His Majesty, or naturalized 
in Great Britain or in New South Wales, and must not be 
a public contractor except as member of a company exceeding 
twenty persons in number 4 or a member of either House of 
' At present, under Act No. 8 of 1902, the electorate for the Senate and 
the House of Representatives is the same ; but if there is any difference, 
the electorate for the Lower House will be that to which the law is referred. 
! This is now the cage, 
* The minimum of 21 included in the Act of 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 54 
sched. 5. 3) does not appear in the Act No. 32 of 1902, s. 16. 
¢ Cf. Miles v. Mcllwraith, 8 App. Cas. 120, a decision on a similar 
provision in tho case of the Queensland Lower House,